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A script for a language across four states.
Also known as: Gondi script
The script devised in the twentieth century for Gondi, spoken across central India.
Writes Gondi, a Dravidian language spoken across several central Indian states.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Created for a language written until then in whichever neighbouring script a region used, so its purpose was to give a dispersed community one written form rather than four — a unification motive rather than a phonological one.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Brahmic-style letters with a distinctive conjunct-forming system, written left to right, devised as a single script for a widely spread language.